Foreign Translations & Editions

Translations & editions of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating are available in French, German, Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese, and Korean. The book is also available in English editions in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia and New Zealand. Click on a book cover below for links to find the book in your country.

Australia/New Zealand

“Who would ever guess that the reward for pausing to look at a mollusc could be so profound?” —Tim Flannery, Australia

“Scientists and literary critics on both sides of the Atlantic are enraptured . . . [Bailey] closes the half-billion year evolutionary gap between snail and human with rare precision and humor . . .” —Courier Mail, Australia

United Kingdom

“Once in a while a read comes along which transcends all expectations and The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is just such a book for me . . .” —Chris Packham

“A finely-crafted eulogy to a common woodland snail and a moving endorsement of the human spirit.”—Sir John Lister-Kaye, naturalist, Scotland